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Expert List

Sharing Knowledge and Experience

The University of Central Missouri has a wealth of dedicated faculty and staff who have background in many subject areas and are willing to serve as expert sources for media or share their knowledge with groups and individuals who may be interested in various topics. While this guide is not inclusive of all faculty at UCM, these individuals are willing to share information about the main subjects they teach or areas of research in which they may have a great passion. 


We hope you will consider using UCM’s expert faculty resources. If you do not find a source for a topic in which  you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact Alex Greenwood, Director of University Communications and Media Relations, at 660-543-4640 or jgreenwood@ucmo.edu.

 

Melissa Abner
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Fashion and Apparel Merchandising
660-543-8725   
mabner@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Ethical Fashion, Fashion History, Visual Merchandising and Store Design, Fashion Marketing and Promotion, Fashion Trends, Retail Strategies and Retail Models, Entrepreneurship in Fashion

Other Areas: Wholesale Markets for Fashion Products, Small Businesses, Buying

 

Micah Alpaugh
Associate Professor of History
816-730-7589
alpaugh@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: American, British and World History, European Politics, Protests and Social Movements

 

Peculiar Awa
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology
660-543-8859
awa@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Crime, Human Rights

Other Areas: Family Dynamics, Girl-child Education

 

Natalia Bailey
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
660-543-4434
nbailey@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Mathematics Education and Training of Future PreK-12 Teachers, Professional Development in Mathematics Education of Teachers

Other Areas: Social Justice and Mathematics, Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development of Teachers in Different Cultural Contexts (Especially Guatemala)

 

Amanda Bradbury
Instructor of Finance
660-543-8576
bradbury@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Personal Finance, Principles of Finance and Macroeconomics

 

Jackie Brandhorst
Assistant Professor of Business Communication
417-838-3662
brandhorst@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Organizational Communication

 

Rene Burress
Assistant Professor (Associate after Aug 1, 2021) and Program Coordinator of Library Science and Information Services
660-543-4910
Burress@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Libraries, Librarians

Other Areas: Genealogy, Educational Technology, Educational Assessment

 

Jennifer Varriale Carson
Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
301-273-5176
jcarson@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Terrorism, Ideologically-Driven Movements in the U.S., Criminal Justice Policy

 

Sang-Wook Cha
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
660-543-4976
cha@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Embryology, Histology, Genetics

Other Areas: Genome Editing, Aquatic Animal Husbandry, Bioinformatics

 

Joyce Chang 
Professor of Child and Family Development Program
660-543-4932
chang@ucmo.edu 

Main Areas: Impact of Technology on Family, Optimal Use of Technology

Other Areas: Marriage and Family, Relationship Development, Resilience

 

Scott Chenault
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology
660-543-4951
chenault@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Corrections, Correctional Programming, Correctional Staff

Other Areas: First-Generation College Student Experience and Success

 

Yeok-il (Eddie) Cho
Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology
660-543-4742
cho@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Research Methods, Comparative CJ Systems, Statistical Modeling

Other Areas: Study Abroad, Cyberbullying

 

James Cicon
Assistant Professor, Finance
660-543-4165
cicon@ucmo.edu

Main Area: Finance, Stock Market 

 

Amber Clifford
Professor of Anthropology and Director of McClure Archives and University Museum
660-543-4877
clifford@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Culture, Diversity and Equity, Gender and Sexuality, Museums, Bedouin, University History, LGBTQ+ Issues and Concerns, Disability Issues and Concerns

 

Angela Collins
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology
660-543-4348
acollins@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, Criminological Theory

Other Areas: Mental Health

 

Belinda Copus
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
660-543-4954
copus@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Pedagogy for Introductory Computer Programming, Neo-piagetian and Constructivist Learning Theories, Cognitive Apprenticeship Theory

Other Areas: Increasing Participation and Retention for Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computer Science

 

Stan Elliott
Project Facilitator, MIC, MIC Initiative Operations
660-543-8256
elliott@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Missouri Innovation Campus Program

 

Nabat Erdogan
Assistant Professor and ELL Program Coordinator
(660)-543-4230 
erdogan@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Linguistics 

Other Areas: Comparative Typological Linguistics, Linguistics, Syntax, Phonetics, Second Language and languages (Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian, and English)

 

Gregg Etter
Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology
660-543-8902
etter@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Gangs, Organized Crime, Policing, Extremist Group

 

Nancy Forth
Professor and Program Coordinator for Counselor Education
660-543-8093
nforth@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Counseling, Mental Health, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, School Counseling

Other Areas: Stress Management, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault Recovery

 

Tony Gasaway
Instructional Faculty and Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology 
660-543-4294
gasaway@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Law Enforcement Leadership

Other Areas: U.S. Marshals

 

Daniel Gilhooly
Assistant Professor of Literacy
848-223-5993
gilhooly@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Refugee Resettlement, Teaching English to Students of Other Languages (TESOL), Ethnography on the Karen of Burma, Participatory Action Research

Other Areas: Amateur Documentary Filmmaking

 

Krystle Gremaud
Assistant Professor of Career and Technology Teacher Education Program Coordinator
660-543-4647
kgremaud@ucmo.edu 

Main Areas: Family Consumer Sciences, Business Education, Agriculture Education, Engineering & Technology Education, Career and Technical Education 

Other Areas: Online Teaching, Virtual Observations, Community Education 

 

Jaimee Hartenstein
Assistant Professor of Child and Family Development and Program Coordinator
660-543-8358
hartenstein@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Child and Family Development, Human Development and Family Science

Other Areas: Divorce, Child Custody, Coparenting Relationships and Communication, Parent-child Relationships in Divorced and Remarried Family Structures, Qualitative Research

 

Lauren Hays
Assistant Professor of Educational Technology
Program Coordinator
Department of Educational Technology and Library Science
660-543-8615
lauhays@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Educational Technology, Online Learning, Digital Literacy

Other Areas: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education, Media Literacy, Information Literacy

 

Blaise Heider
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
660-543-4730  
heider@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Non-Commutative Ring and Module Theory

Other Areas: Algebra, Functional Analysis, Algebraic Topology, Advanced Skills in Formatting Documents such as Exams, Assignments, Syllabi, etc., in LaTeX

 

Jason Holland
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemist
660-543-8714
holland@umco.edu

Main Areas: Nucleic Acid Structure and Stability

 

Jiaqi Huang
Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity and Information Technology
660-543-8865
jhuang@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Wireless Security, Internet of Vehicles

Other Areas: 5G Wireless Communications, Modeling of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

 

Dan Jensen
Associate Professor of Management and MBA Director
660-543-8039
jensen@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Management and Entrepreneurship

Other Areas: Strategy, Organization Development, Change Management, Career Management

 

Odin Jurkowski
Professor of Instructional Technology
Department of Educational Technology and Library Science
660-543-8678
jurkowski@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Educational Technology, Libraries, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Media Links: KCUR, "Teachers and a Legislator 'Chat' About Missouri Facebook Law"

 

Taeghyun Kang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
660-543-8315
tkang@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Software Engineering

Other Areas: Software Engineering, Fault Tolerance, Software Application Development, Industry Experiences, Samsung

 

Ryan Kim
Assistant Professor of Sports Management and Program Coordinator
660-543-4781  
kykim@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Sport Management

Other Areas: Measurement and Evaluation, Meta-analysis

 

David Kreiner
Professor, Psychological Science
660-543-8076
kreiner@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Cognitive Psychology, Memory

 

Robynn Kuhlmann
Associate Professor of Political Science and State Government Internship Coordinator
660-543-8307
Kuhlmann@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: State Politics, Voting and Elections

Other Areas: Term Limits, State Legislatures, Voting Behavior, Election Administration

 

Joanne Kurt-Hilditch
Senior Director of Missouri Safety Center
660-543-4213 
kurt-hilditch@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Corrections, Law Enforcement, Grants, Impaired Driving, Highway and Traffic Safety, Training, Ethics, Leadership

Other Areas: Substance Abuse Counseling, Criminal Justice Research, Association and Board Membership

 

Scott Lankford
Chair of School of Natural Sciences and Professor of Biology
660-543-8827
lankford@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Fish Physiology, Vertebrate Stress Physiology, Reproductive Physiology, Endocrinology

Other Areas: Sustainable Aquaculture, Aquaponics, Marine Biology

 

Mark Lee
Assistant Professor of School of Teaching and Learning
816-719-6097
jmlee@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Secondary Content Instruction and Classroom Management

Other Areas: Choral Music and Solo Voice Instruction, K-12 Building and District Administration

 

Kathleen Leicht
Professor of English and Associate Dean for College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and Interim Head of Theatre and Dance
660-543-8209
leicht@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: British Literature, English Novel, London Theatre 1660-1800

Other Areas: Old-time Fiddle Music, Mountain Dulcimer Music

 

Joseph Lewandowski
Professor of Philosophy
660-543-4628
lewandowski@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Democracy, Urbanism, Inequality, Sports Ethics and Culture

 

Julia Lewis
Instructor for Communication
Muleskinner (Student Newspaper) Adviser
660-543-4050  
jlewis@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Journalism, Mass Communication, Strategic Communication, Media, Multimedia, Study Abroad, Journalism Education

Other Areas: Policy Development Using Primarily Qualitative Methods

 

Doug Longhofer
Assistant Professor of Accountancy
660-543-8560
dlonghofer@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Federal Taxation of Business Entities

 

Kyle Lovercamp
Associate Professor of Biology and Agriculture and Animal Scientist
660-543-8094
klovercamp@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Swine Reproductive Physiology

Other Areas: Farm Animal Production, Nutrition and Genetics

 

Mike Makara
Assistant Professor, Political Science
660-543-8948
makara@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Middle Eastern Studies

 

Daniel Marschalek
Assistant Professor of Entomology
(660) 543-8880
marschalek@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Entomology, Ecology, Conservation, Population Monitoring

Other Areas: Butterflies, Blister Beetles, Decomposition, Pollination

 

Shannon McCarthy
Assistant Professor of Marketing
660-543-8192
smccarthy@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Marketing Research, Sports Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Consumer-Brand Connection, Crisis Communication

 

Ann McCoy
Vice Provost, Academic Programs and Services

Dean of College of Education
660-543-4235
mccoy@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Education

 

Annie McCoy
Assistant Professor of Marketing
660-232-1317
anmccoy@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Digital Marketing, Advertising, Branding and Marketing Design

 

Phoebe McLaughlin
Chair of the Department of Math, Actuarial Science, and Statistics
Professor of Statistics and Mathematics
Department of Math, Actuarial Science, and Statistics
660-543-4790
pmclaughlin@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Financial Mathematics, Probability, Statistics, Semigroups

Other Areas: Actuarial Exams Preparation, Actuarial Career Advising and Planning, Math Pathways and Corequisites Developments

 

Ashley Miller-Scully
Professor and Chair of Theatre and Dance
School of Visual and Performing Arts, Division of Theatre and Dance
660-543-8798 
almiller@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Dance and Musical Theatre

Other Areas: Choreography, Professional Auditions, Professional Theatre & Dance Affiliations, Summer Stock Work

 

Jennifer Mittelhauser
Biology Instructor
660-543-8877
mittelhauser@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Wildlife, Ecology, Aquatic Insects, Botany, Herpetology

 

Joseph Moore
Chair of the Department of Communication & Digital Media Productions
660-543-4923
jhmoore@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Sports Reporting

Other Areas: Leadership

 

Michael Mulhall
Assistant Professor of Safety Sciences
660-543-8995
mulhall@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Management of Hazardous Materials, Resource Conservation and Recovery, Hazardous Materials Clean-up, Herbicide-Pesticide Management

Other Areas: Workers Compensation and Fair Labor Standards, Agricultural Safety, Food Manufacturing

 

Selene Nikaido
Associate Professor of Biology and Molecular Biologist
660-543-4324
nikaido@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Molecular Biology, Genetics

Other Areas: Genome Annotation, CUREs, Gene Identification, Bioinformatics, Plant Population Genetics

 

Joshua Nygren
Chair and Associate Professor of History
Department of History
660-543-8738
nygren@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Agriculture and Sustainability, especially as it relates to soil and water conservation; Environmental History (environmental policy, activism, land use, etc.); 20th Century U.S. Political, Social and Economic History

Media Links: Author, "The State of Conservation"

 

Anna Oller
Professor of Biology, Microbiologist
660-543-4934
oller@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Microbiology, Bacteria, Parasites, Molecular Biology, Medical Laboratory Sciences 

Other Areas: Tick-borne Illnesses, Fermentation

 

Dawn (Cassandra) Pauling
Biology Instructor and Wildlife Disease Biologist
660-543-8027
pauling@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Wildlife Disease, Infectious Disease, Disease Ecology, Plague Sylvatic Cycle, Yersinia Pestis, Pathogens

Other Areas: Microbial Genetics, Immunology, Population Health Assessments, Necropsy, Field Surveillance for Wildlife Disease, Trapping, GIS

 

Rajkumar Pandiyampa
Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems
660-262-8552
pandiyampa@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Cybersecurity for Cloud and Networked Systems

 

Narasimha S. Paravastu
Associate Professor of CIS and Analytics
660-441-8244
paravastu@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Databases, Data Management, Information Systems Security, Programming Languages and Programming Frameworks in C#, Android, JavaScript, Web Development, Project Management, and Strategic Management of Information Technology

Other Areas: Technology Trust and Interpersonal Trust as It Applies to Information Systems, Information Systems Security, Bystander Theory, Protection Motivation Theory and Fear Appeals as It Applies to IS and Security

 

Melissa Petkovsek
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology
660-543-4270
petkovsek@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Biological Risk Factors, Correlations of Crime, Particularly Violent and Serious Antisocial Behavior, the Impact of Strain and Stress on Mental Health and Behavior

Other Areas: Issues in Forensic Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Study Abroad

 

Paul Plummer
Assistant Professor of Statistics
660-543-4433
pplummer@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Statistics, Statistics Education, Change Point Analysis in Relation to DNA Gene Expression Data

Other Areas: Opportunities in Actuarial Science, Statistics, Bioinformatics

 

Georgi Popov
Professor and Interim Chair of Geoscience, Physics and Safety
660-543-4208
gpopov@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Risk Assessment and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Other Areas: Environmental Management, Air Quality

 

Sam Ramanujan
Professor of Computer Information Systems and Analytics, Graduate Coordinator for CIS&IT and BDA&IT
660-441-0496
ramanujan@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Advanced Object-Oriented Programing, Software Engineering, Software Development, Big Data Architecture, Visual Analytics, Developing and Deploying Complex Systems

Other Areas: Industry Experiences, Legal Issues in Information Technology

 

Ronnie Rollins
Associate Professor, School of Technology
660-543-4086
rollins@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Technology

 

Prasad S Rudramuniyaiah
Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems and Analytics, 
660-441-1161
rudramuniyaiah@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Business Intelligence, Analytics, Knowledge Management and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (SAP) 

 

Mohammad Sadi
Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology
660-543-4032
sadi@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Electric Power System and Electronics

Other Areas: Digital Electronics and Power Electronics

 

Michael Sawyer
Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
660-543-4750
msawyer@ucmo.edu

Main Area: Liberal Arts, Visual and Performing Arts

 

Charlie Schwepker
Randall and Kelly Harbert Marketing Professor in Harmon College of Business and Professional Studies
660-543-8554
schwepker@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Marketing

Other Areas: Professional Selling, Sales Management, Sales Ethics

 

James (Jim) Staab
Professor of Political Science
660-543-8825
staab@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Constitutional Law, Supreme Court, Civil Rights, Liberties, and the American Presidency

Other Areas: Different Ways of Interpreting the Constitution

 

Jay Steinkruger
Chair of the Department of Physical Sciences
Professor of Chemistry
Department of Physical Sciences
660-543-4432
steinkruger@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Protein Folding Thermodynamics, Organic Synthesis, Materials Chemistry, Chemistry Education

 

George Tart
MMSP Program Coordinator
660-543-4687   
tart@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Motorcycle Safety and Motorcycle Instructor Trainer

Other Areas: Official High School Basketball

 

Jon Taylor
Professor of History 
660-543-4582
jtaylor01@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Life, Political Career and Legacy of Harry S. Truman, Missouri History

Other Areas: National Park Service, Historic Preservation, Public History

 

Doug Thomas
Professor of Educational Leadership and Program Coordinator
660-543-8834     
thomas@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Charter Schools

Other Areas: Educational Leadership, Middle Level Education

 

Wesley Tinker
Assistant Professor of Safety Sciences
660-543-8953
wtinker@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Safety and Health

Other Areas: Education, Emergency Management, Emergency Medicine, Customer Service (Internal and External), Career Management, Continuous Improvement, Management

 

Greg Turner
Professor and Program Coordinator for the Communication Disorders Program
660-543-8799   
Turner@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Anatomy and Physiology of Speaking, Speech Acoustics, Fluency Disorders (Stuttering), Motor Speech Disorders 

 

Lynn Urban
Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
660-543-4188
urban@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Juvenile Justice, Parenting from Prison, Academic and Program Evaluation

Media Links: Denver Post, "2 juveniles charged in mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade"

 

Lianwen Wang
Professor of Statistics
660-543-8870  
lwang@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Data Mining, Time Series Modeling and Analysis, Differential Equations, Analysis

Other Areas: Undergraduate Research in Statistics and Mathematics, Graduate Thesis Supervision

 

Donald Wengler
Assistant Professor of Accountancy
660-543-4946
wengler@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Expert Witness and Litigation Consultant

Other Areas: Assisting Attorneys with Accounting Information and Data Analytics in Disputes Involving Business Damages, Business Interruption Lost Profits, Wrongful Death, and Personal Injury

 

Miaozong Wu
Associate Professor of Safety and Industrial Hygiene and Program Coordinator of Master of Science in Occupational Safety Management
660-543-4411
miawu@ucmo.edu

Main Areas:  Occupational Safety, Health and Industrial Hygiene

Other Areas: Electrical safety, On-site/Virtual Training for Industries, Musculoskeletal Disorders

 

Linrui Zhang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
660-543-8690
lzhang@ucmo.edu

Main Areas: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Neural Network and Deep Learning

Other Areas: Commercial-Level NLP Software Development, Students Research Supervision

 

 

 

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